Combined pipe rack and ash receiver



r h 26, 1957 A. c. BISHOFF I COMBINED PIPE RACK AND ASH RECEIVER Original Filed Feb. 13, 1945 l l I INVENTOR. Auclusr C. blsl-loFF 77ZM W +mm ATTOQNEYS United States Patent COMBINED PIPE RACK AND ASH RECEIVER August C. Bishoif, Detroit, Mich.

Substituted for abandoned application Serial No. 577,600, February 13, 1945. This application March 18, 1955, Serial No. 495,138

2 Claims. (Cl. 131240) This invention relates to ash trays or ash receivers and has for its primary object to provide means carried by the ash tray to support a smoking pipe in an inverted position to facilitate drying of the pipe to thus utilize the ash tray as a pipe rack.

It is well known that moisture collects in the bowl of smoking pipes and the pipe loses its taste upon frequent use and without allowing the drying out of the bowl of the pipe.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide means for supporting the pipe, when not in use, so that the same will quickly dry. 7

More specifically, the invention comprises an ash tray or receiver having upstanding pegs in the bottom of the tray and one which the bowl of the pipe may be supported in an inverted position within the tray whereby to facilitate drying thereof.

A further object of the invention is to provide means of this character for supporting the bowl of the pipe in an inverted position within the ash tray while at the same time the stem of the pipe is supported in an upwardly inclined position to facilitate drainage of moisture toward the bowl.

Other objects and advantages reside in the details of construction as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

Figure 1 is a top plan view embodying one form of the invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken substantially on a line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a plan view of a modified form of ash tray, and

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken substantially on a line 44 of Figure 3.

Referring now to the drawings in detail and first with respect to the form of the invention illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings, the numeral 5 designates an open pan-like member or tray having a circular bottom 6 and an upstanding cylindrical side wall 7.

A post 8 rises from the center of the bottom 6 of the tray having a head 9 formed at its upper end and constituting a pipe knocker upon which the pipe may be struck to dislodge and remove unburned particles of tobacco from the bowl of the pipe.

Also rising from the bottom 6 of the tray are a plurality of pegs 10, the pegs being inclined in a direction toward the post 8 and spaced substantially equidistantly between the walls 7 and the post 8.

The upper edges of the walls 7 are formed with a plurality of circumferentially spaced notches 11, adapted "ice to support the stem 12 of a pipe while the bowl 13 is supported on one of the pegs 10 in an inverted position as illustrated in dashed lines in Figure 2 of the drawings.

Accordingly, moisture will be drained from the pipe stem toward the bowl and drained from the bowl into the ash tray thus facilitating the drying of the bowl and stem of the pipe.

In the form of the invention illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of the drawings a substantially rectangular shaped ash tray or receiver 15 is illustrated, the bottom of the tray likewise having pegs 16 rising therefrom and the side edges of the tray also having notches 17 formed therein adapted for supporting the stem 18 of a pipe While the bowl 19 thereof is inverted on one of the pegs 16.

The notches 11 and 17 are also adapted to support a lit cigarette on the ash trays of both modifications in the manner illustrated in dashed lines in Figs. 3 and 4.

It will be noted that the pegs 10 and 16 are relatively short and terminate below the upper edges of the ash tray, so that the stem of the pipe will be supported in an inclined position.

While I have illustrated an ash tray and pipe rack of this character constructed annularly and rectangularly it will be apparent that the article may be constructed of various other shapes and of any desired size.

This application is a substitute of application Serial No. 577,600 filed February 13, 1945 and forfeited on September 30, 1950.

Having thus described the invention, what is new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. A combined ash receiver and pipe rack comprising an open pan-like member having a bottom and an upstanding side wall, the upper edge of said side wall having therein a plurality of notches arranged in spaced relation, each of said notches being adapted to be occupied by the stem of a pipe, and a plurality of pegs arranged in spaced relation about and inclined toward the center of the bottom and rising from said bottom, each peg being disposed in a vertical plane of a notch and having the upper end spaced below the upper edge of the said side wall. I

2. A combined ash receiver and pipe rack comprising an open pan-like member having a circular bottom and an upstanding cylindrical side wall, the upper edge of said side wall having therein a plurality of radial equidistan tly spaced notches, each of said notches being adapted to be occupied by the stem of a pipe, and an equal plurality of pegs arranged in spaced relation about and inclined toward the center of the bottom and rising from said bottom, each peg being disposed in the vertical plane of a notch and having the upper end spaced below the upper edge of said side wall.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,104,004 Rathbone July 21, 1914 2,096,405 Phillips Oct. 19, 1937 2,265,811 Mayer et a1 Dec. 9, 1941 2,312,434 Nathan Mar. 2, 1943 2,588,529 Hume Mar. 11, 1952 2,625,939 Harper Jan. 20, 1953 FOREIGN PATENTS 19,681 Great Britain 1903 1,061,515 France Apr. 13, 1954 

